flfmrredfan

Ha, ha! You made a funny! You labeled pencil neck and Ickyhorst respected leaders. Technically, no one can listen to this forum, so I don't really care if folks might listen to me. But, I'm glad you read my post. Thanks for the funny too!

That's not true. At least not for me. I dispise the inconsistency shown by Ickyhorst in his support for Pilini vs Riley. It's the same show all over again when one looks back at 2004 - 2007. I don't want Ickyhorst to fire Riley, because I don't want him to make another bad hire. Under pencil neck, the trend is that Nebraska doesn't want to pay for an upgrade for HC. And Nebraska will have to pay big bucks to get an upgrade over Pelini. Or get lucky.

A couple niggles: • Eichorst probably hated seeing Nebraska LOSE to Iowa in 2013, a 38 - 17 humiliation at Memorial Stadium to an unranked, unremarkable Iowa team in the last game of the regular season. Some might remember Bo using profanity while daring Eichorst to fire him after that game. Instead Eichorst gave him a contract extension that March, and perhaps a million dollars more in recruiting upgrades for the 2014 season. http://www.omaha.com/huskers/blogs/is-nebraska-football-spending-enough-money-on-recruiting/article_8036adb4-ab0f-11e4-89cc-773fc56c561f.html • You have no idea how Eichorst felt in 2014, watching Nebraska come back from 24-7 down in the third quarter to defeat an unranked, unremarkable Iowa in overtime in the last game of the regular season. You might have a better idea how Nebraska fans felt. Many considered the Wisconsin debacle the last straw, and the failure to beat Minnesota the next week the icing on the last straw. If Shawn Eichorst had a secret agenda of giving Bo Pelini another season to prove himself, and believed that Pelini had failed in that regard before the Iowa game, it was shared in public by an awful lot of Nebraska fans. Dip back in the Huskerboard archives if you'd like. • We have a much better idea how Bo Pelini felt, because he was really honest in expressing his feelings. He blamed the Wisconsin loss on the fans. You're accusing Shawn Eichorst of wishing for the players to fail, to match a private agenda that was shared by a lot of Husker fans regarding a coach who told the fans, the school and the state to go f#*k themselves three years earlier. Because Bo Pelini didn't want to be here. And yet he demanded loyalty. Not sure you're my go-to guy on matters of integrity, CM Husker. Are you that unaware of the irony (the bolded) you just posted? Gawd, I can't believe the lack of self awareness of some posters. I've read many examples of posters, and not just here, stating, no, speculating, that Pelini would never get over the 9 win hump, yet they will in the same post state that Riley needs time so he can get his system and then he will turn it around, and win championships, I suppose? Never mind that the guy is a career .500 guy. When backed into a corner, because gawd knows, they don't have facts, they resort to bashing the former HC, or worse, the players. Welcome to 2004-2007 all over again. Thanks pencil neck!

and i gave you all the same respect you gave them. i believe you have to at least respect their positions even if you don't respect the person. Oh, okay. So, you want me to adress the stooges by their title, not their name? Why didn't you say so in the first place?

Irony, thy name is commando! I have used correct names. Two of the current stooges, and a former stooge are getting all the respect they deserve from me.

History repeating itself. Ickyhorst (and thus SPEM) have agendas because their boss has one. The tragedy is that there is no excuse for this. I remember posting on another (long gone) forum, my skepticism when pencil neck chose his own hire over Osborne's preference. I was naive enough to listen to some of the same posters who backed SPEM before they came around, ensuring me that Ickyhorst was different than SPEM, and thus, wouldn't repeat SPEM's actions. Shame on me for underestimating the incompetence of pencil neck.

I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell ya! pencil neck doubling down on his bad decision?! Why, it's almost as if "I've Seen That Movie Too" once before ...

Firing Riley now is a bad move, as it will give pencil neck's man, Ickyhorst, another chance to make a bad hire. Failure in football is pencil neck's legacy.

Well, until pencil neck's reign, the bolded part was not true at Nebraska. The rest of your post, is spot on. Thank gawd for Devaney, otherwise, Osborne would have been fired for the reason you stated, denying Nebraska football that glorious period, had someone like pencil neck, or Ickyhorst, or dare I say, SPEM, been in charge. It is simply unbelievable that Nebraska football is repeating similar mistakes made during the SPEM debacle, as if they (or in reality, pencil neck) didn't learn anything from that disaster. But, I shouldn't be surprised, considering pencil neck hired that idiot too.